“Agile is to software development what poetry is to literature. It is very difficult to do well, very easy to do poorly, and most people don’t understand why a good poem is good and a bad poem isn’t…” – from the web
This is part 1 of a 2-part series. The 1st part will discuss the culture and mindset around Agile, and how Agile Quadrants are used. Part 2 will discuss how to use the Agile Quadrant, the significance of Automation in Agile Quadrants and how to use Agile Quadrants to overcome Quality Assurance headaches. Organizations aspire ...
How to fit automated testing into scrum, and keep testers in sync with other teams One of the benefits of the approaches of agile projects is their friendliness towards testing. The testing activities, and the testers with it, are integrated into the teams, and testing and quality are redefined as team responsibilities. Automation nowadays is a must-have ...
As CTO of Xebia and highly experienced in offshore testing in India, Guido articulates his methods in addressing common challenges faced by the in-house and offshore teams. He weighs heavily on strategic tactics as well as key cultural aspects to execute efficient and effective Agile methods. 1. I work at a US-based company and we ...
Testing is often looked upon by many as an unmanageable, unpredictable, unorganized practice with little structure. It is common to hear questions or complaints from development including: What are test teams doing? Testing takes too long Testers have negative attitudes
Distinguishing these terms from each other can be rather confusing. In an attempt to go back to the basics, Nadine Schaeffer explains in detail the benefits and the necessity of using realistic situations.
Application development and delivery teams are under constant pressure to release quality features as quickly as possible. CIOs rate delivering applications faster, with higher quality and with strong control on application development as their key priorities. What’s more, supporting this type of agile environment is particularly complex to IT teams that are also tasked with supporting ...
Armed with the right tool or set of tools, a development team can incorporate ALM into its Agile process and start reaping the benefits of Agile ALM. As the software development industry matures, it is devising methods for ushering products from inception to completion—a process that has come to be known by the buzzword ALM ...
Over the years many Agile proponents have come out strongly against offshoring some of the development team, and in particular against having a remote testing team. We made use of not one, but two separate outsourcing providers located in two distant locations. While we had many challenges, what we found was that by starting with ...
I have worked with testers on an Agile team before and it has worked very well for both the team and the customer. In my previous role at Bank of Ireland, testers who had come from a traditional testing background worked within our teams to help ensure we had quality deliverables at the end of ...
Author of The Agile Warrior, Rasmusson answers questions from LogiGear’s testing staff about test automation in agile projects.
Build the right test platform including infrastructure, virtual lab and process. Testing embedded software is both similar and dissimilar to application software testing. The first eye-catching thing is that embedded software is significantly less visible to the end user. User interfaces are limited; there may be a console-based text menu, a simple command line interface, ...
